Le haut d'un battant de porte (Birds Nailed to a Barn Door)

1852

Félix Bracquemond

Associated Names
Félix Bracquemond

Artist, French, 1833 - 1914

The image features three birds and a bat arranged on a wooden surface. A crow with outstretched wings is on the left, an owl with wide-spread wings on the right, and a smaller hawk with folded wings at the center bottom. Above the hawk is a bat with extended wings. The colors in the image are primarily grayscale. The wooden surface has vertical planks, and a metal hinge detail is visible on the right side.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.8 × 38.5 cm (10 15/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
    plate: 30.3 × 40 cm (11 15/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 31.7 × 41.8 cm (12 1/2 × 16 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1944.8.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Beraldi, no. 110, State iii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(David Keppel, New York); purchased by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, 1944; gift to National Gallery of Art, 1944

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

2009

  • The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

Bibliography

1885

  • Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris, 1885-1892: Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892.

1987

  • Bouillon, Jean-Paul. Félix Bracquemond, Le Réalisme Absolu: oeuvre gravé 1849-1859, catalogue raisonné, Geneva: Skira, 1987.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, at lower right: FBracquemond / inv & fec / 1852; in plate, below image, at center: Le Haut d'un battant de porte.; in plate, below image, at right: Imp Delatre rue de Bievre 19 Paris; verso: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: B 33566 B-4783 [upside down]; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: FCO.

Markings

none

Watermarks

GG

Wikidata ID

Q65019875

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